HANNAH O'SULLIVAN

The Facts

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Hannah O'Sullivan is a Korean American golfer with a Korean mother and white father. By 2015, she had risen to be one of the top women's amateurs in the world. That year, she won the US Women's Amateur and the AJGA Rolex Championship. She rose to be the #1 amateur in the world.

Hannah has also had success in professional events. In 2015, she won the Symetra Tour's Gateway Classic, becoming, at 16, the youngest girl to ever win on that tour. She also made the cut at the US Women's Open and Evian Championship.

Hannah continued to have success in LPGA events in 2016, making two cuts in the two events she played. She had announced that she would attend USC in the Fall, but decided instead to go to LPGA Q-School.

But as 2016 progressed, she played a number of professional events while maintaining amateur status, but struggled, finishing far back or missing the cut for the most part. Then O'Sullivan did an unusual thing: she changed her mind, and decided to play college golf after all. She enrolled at Duke University and matriculated there in the Fall of 2017.

O'Sullivan enjoyed her freshman year at Duke, but continued to struggle. Eventually she corrected things enough that she was able to be an important member of the Duke team, which, among other achievements, won the national championship in 2019.

O'Sullivan graduated from Duke in 2021, during the height of the pandemic. In an interview at the time she did not mention any intention of playing professional golf, and indeed it does not look like she did. She intended to go into the finance industry after graudation.